Quotes About Wealth

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

Stop spending money you don't have.

I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

When I was a kid, I remember the fear of going into big brand stores. You didn't want to go in because you felt like you couldn't afford anything.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.

Much of what we think of as cultural differences turn out to be differences in income.

It is probably difficult for the average person to imagine becoming accustomed to a yacht, servants, and limousines, but consider how you would feel if you could never take a hot shower again. Many people in wealthier nations have become used to this pleasure and actually think of it as a necessity. Actually, a hot shower is clearly a luxury, especially when we consider that most of the world's population has never experienced such a pleasure.

With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She

The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."1 —John Boyle O'Reilly

sometimes victory doesn't go to the strongest or swiftest. Sometimes it goes to a desperate dead man with deep pockets.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

In the balloons of grandeur that kept Stephenson aloft, the presidency was just a few puffs of helium away. "Boys, I'm not in this for the money," he told his cronies. "You're going to put me in the White House.